Text Overlay Image with Darkened Opacity React Native

Question

I am attempting to overlay a title over an image - with the image darkened with a lower opacity. However, the opacity effect is changing the overlaying text as well - making it dim. Any fix to this? Here is what is looks like:

And here is my code for the custom component (article preview - which the above image is a row of article preview components):

//component for article preview touchable image
/* will require the following
- rss feed and api
- user's keyword interests from parse In home.js
- parse db needs to be augmented to include what they heart
- parse db needs to be augmented to include what they press on (like google news)
*/
var React = require('react-native');
var {
  View, 
  StyleSheet, 
  Text, 
  Image, 
  TouchableHighlight, 
} = React;

//dimensions
var Dimensions = require('Dimensions');
var window = Dimensions.get('window');
var ImageButton = require('../../common/imageButton');
var KeywordBox = require('../../authentication/onboarding/keyword-box');

//additional libraries

module.exports = React.createClass({
  //onPress function that triggers when button pressed
  //this.props.text is property that can be dynamically filled within button 
  /* following props:
    - source={this.props.source}
    - onPress={this.props.onPress}
    - {this.props.text}
    - {this.props.heartText}
    - key={this.props.key} 
    - text={this.props.category} 
    - this.props.selected
  */
  render: function() {
    return (
      <TouchableHighlight 
        underlayColor={'transparent'}
        onPress={this.props.onPress} >
          <Image 
            source={this.props.source} 
            style={[styles.articlePreview, this.border('red')]}>
                  <View style={[styles.container, this.border('organge')]}>
                      <View style={[styles.header, this.border('blue')]}>
                          <Text style={[styles.previewText]}>{this.props.text}</Text>
                      </View>
                      <View style={[styles.footer, this.border('white')]}>
                        <View style={[styles.heartRow, this.border('black')]}>
                          <ImageButton
                              style={[styles.heartBtn, , this.border('red')]}
                              resizeMode={'contain'}
                              onPress={this.onHeartPress}
                              source={require('../../img/heart_btn.png')} />
                          <Text style={[styles.heartText]}>{this.props.heartText + ' favorites'}</Text>
                        </View>
                          <KeywordBox 
                              style={[styles.category, this.border('blue')]}
                              key={this.props.key} 
                              text={this.props.category} 
                              onPress={this.props.categoryPress}
                              selected={this.props.selected} />
                      </View>
                  </View>
          </Image>
      </TouchableHighlight>
    );
  }, 
  onHeartPress: function() {
    //will move this function to a general module
  }, 
  border: function(color) {
      return {
        //borderColor: color, 
        //borderWidth: 4,
      } 
   },
});

var styles = StyleSheet.create({
  heartText: {
    color: 'white', 
    fontSize: 12, 
    fontWeight: 'bold',
    alignSelf: 'center', 
    marginLeft: 5, 
    fontFamily: 'SFCompactText-Medium'
  }, 
  heartRow: {
    flexDirection: 'row', 
    justifyContent: 'space-around', 
    alignSelf: 'center', 
    justifyContent: 'center', 
  }, 
  heartBtn: {
    height: (92/97)*(window.width/13), 
    width: window.width/13, 
    alignSelf:'center', 
  }, 
  category: {
    fontFamily: 'Bebas Neue', 
    fontSize: 10,
    fontWeight: 'bold'
  }, 
  header: {
    flex: 3, 
    alignItems: 'center', 
    justifyContent: 'space-around', 
    marginTop: window.height/30,
  }, 
  footer: {
    flex: 1, 
    flexDirection: 'row', 
    justifyContent: 'space-between', 
    alignItems: 'center', 
    margin: window.height/50,
  }, 
  container: {
    flex: 1, 
    backgroundColor: 'black', 
    opacity: 0.6, 
  }, 
  articlePreview: {
    flex: 1, 
    height: window.height/3.2, 
    width: window.width, 
    flexDirection: 'column'
  }, 
  previewText: {
    fontFamily: 'Bebas Neue', 
    fontSize: 23,
    color: 'white', 
    alignSelf: 'center', 
    textAlign: 'center', 
    margin: 5, 
    position: 'absolute',
    top: 0,
    right: 0,
    bottom: 0,
    left: 0
  }, 

});

Solution 1

Try changing the container's style to

container: {
 flex: 1, 
 backgroundColor: 'rgba(0,0,0,.6)'
},

Solution 2

Instead of applying the opacity to entire ImageBackground element, implement it on the image itself Eg.

<ImageBackground style={styles.imageContainer}
                 imageStyle={{ opacity: 0.5 }}
                 source={require('../assets/images/background.png')}>
                <View style={styles.welcomeContainer}>
                    <Image source={require('../assets/images/zeptagram-logo.png')} style={styles.welcomeImage} />
                </View>
            </ImageBackground>

Solution 3

I solve my work with Background inside Image tag and It works fine. like this

<Image source={require('./img/2.jpg')} style=
              {{height:deviceRowHeight,width:deviceWidth}}>
    <View style={{backgroundColor:'rgba(0,0,0,.6)',
                 height:deviceRowHeight,width:deviceWidth}}>
         <Text> Test Text </Text>
    </View>
</Image>

Solution 4

Opacity will affect the entire view. Try having 2 views instead. One that's absolutely positioned with the image contained. Another with your text and button content.

You can absolutely position a view using position : "absolute", top: 0, left: 0

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